This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved 1 Short Communication Seroepidemiology of hepatitis B and C virus infections among blood donors in Ethiopia † Gadissa Bedada Hundie 1 , V. Stalin Raj 1 , Daniel Gebre Michael 2 , Bart L. Haagmans 1* 1 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2 National blood bank services, Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Running head: HBV and HCV seroepidemiology in Ethiopia *Author for correspondence: Dr. Bart L. Haagmans, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: b.haagmans@erasmusmc.nl † This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: [10.1002/jmv.24770] Received 11 November 2016; Revised 29 December 2016; Accepted 22 January 2017 Journal of Medical Virology This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DOI 10.1002/jmv.24770